Potential insight on the Elegy of Emptiness / Young Link's distorted replica: apparently the developers realized the implications of the ending of Ocarina of Time (Link as a man being sent back in time into the body of a child) and wanted Young Link to look like a child but have expressions of an adult. I wouldn't be surprised if the replica of Young Link looks so twisted because it represents the discomfort of Adult Link being trapped in the body of a child and the horrors he has been through thus far between the two games. (Also fully aware it could just be a funny expression they liked)
@@just_a_tepig3611 I like to think Rauru had him do combat training in the spirt realm while his physical body slept. I don't think it would do much good for a 10 year old to fight Ganondorf. That's the whole reason he had to slumber to begin with.
I think that the re-dead’s are actually grieving, as when they lean down, their heads are still a good distance from the corpses, and they slightly shudder as if crying.
Yeah, but that shuddering could also be interpreted as chewing. It's really hard to tell. But eating fallen comrades doesn't have to be a morbid act. I'm currently reading the Realm of the Elderlings cycle by Robin Hobb. There dragons do eat their fallen kin in order to preserve the memories of the individual. It's even unbearable for them not to do so, because that would mean that lower creatures and vermin would feast on the body of a dragon. And that mustn't be allowed. So maybe it's both. Maybe they're eating their fallen comrades _because_ they moan their passing.
@@lonestarr1490 The Wari, a cannibal tribe living in the Amazon jungle and "discovered" in the 1950s, consumed the dead bodies of their neighbors and friends as a necessary and compassionate act, because "it is better to be inside a warm friend than in the cold earth," and because it keeps the dead people within the tribe instead of surrendering them to wild animals and bugs. When European missionaries arrived in the area, they forced the islanders to bury their dead instead of eating them, cannibalism being forbidden by Christianity. The natives were horrified by the concept, but since the missionaries also killed off most of them with disease, they didn't have the power to protest the cultural changes being forced on them.
@@mikeysrose It's kinda funny that cannibalism is forbidden in Christianity but we give a pass at eating, following Catholic doctrine, the litteral body of Christ. (Yes, the Catholic priest really turns the wine and bread into divine flesh, says the doctrine)
This is all really really old stuff every RUclipsr under the sun has made a video with these. I’m about done here it’s been months since I’ve seen anything new.
I love how much depth there is within each Zelda game. There was no need for Nintendo to include them, but they still did, just to make the games that much more amazing!
It helps that this was done in the earliest ages of gaming....where more effort was put into lore and small Easter egg details. If these games came out now, I couldn't say there would be this much detail consistently.
Maybe the way the Link statue looks is because it's a reflection of Miyamoto. He did use his adventures as a kid for inspiration for the original Zelda. That's the only reason I could think of it looking like him.
I was thinking it shows links internal feelings...he puts on a brave face, fighting all threats with incredible resolve...but inside he's still scared, the song creates a statue resembling the spirit/internal emotion...link is terrified by each and every enemy, but knows he's the only one who can strike these beasts down
Considering Link is kind of the stand in for Miyamotos younger self when he would explore, that's very deep. Ever since I heard that story I always got an inclining feeling that Link's character had a bit of Miyamoto's soul in him. So in a sense when Link used the Elegy of Emptiness to show a shell of his "soul", it makes perfect sense as to why he resembles the man himself. It's a pretty cool subtle connection that I'm sure the developers were trying to make when they created the game. Details like this are why I will always consider Nintendo the top dog when it comes to making games. Nobody has them beat as far as I'm concerned, their standard of quality is on a whole other level from most
The Elegy of Emptiness creates a soldier for a skeleton king. The dead spirits fit in, but very-alive Link does not. He does his best to fit in, looking with dead eyes and showing a bit of skeleton with his teeth.
that actually makes a surprising amount of sense, and while still creepy, its also kind of cute and a very clever, subtle little piece of character building, if true.
Another thing from BotW, by the Hebra stable, there's an old man who gives Link directions. When you ask him about the North, he tells of the labyrinth and how a friend of his decided to venture through when they were kids. The old man states that he never saw his friend again. In the labyrinth, you can find a lone luminous stone on the ground in one of the dead ends. This supports the theory that dead souls are in, or are part of the luminous stones in Hyrule.
I love the way you describe the mysteries. You present the evidence slowly, and with each fact equally presenting a new theory, which keeps me fixed on the video till the end. The mystery is answered with mystery till the real solution is found, and I love when that’s the case.
I've seen a vid floating around that the Blights were formed around the champion's dead bodies and actually hearing the "their attacks mirror the champion they killed" I can see why people might think that BUT an idea hit me: What if the Blights targeted/corrupted the auto-pilot? The Shiekah knew they needed to make the Divine Beasts, they knew they needed to make the Shines for Age of the Wild Link, why wouldn't they know future Hyrule would need help figuring out their tech? So they made auto-pilots; Robots much like the ones in Skyward Sword that may have acted as like a bridge for the champions to their respective beasts. If we take the theory that the Divine Beasts require life force to control, having something much like yourself to 'bond' to and ease into your role with might help. The pilot pushes their will onto the Auto-Pilots and the auto-pilots actually give the Beast its commands. So when Ganon sent Malice to each Beast the Auto-Pilots got corrupted but couldn't take full control without the true pilots life force. So they waited for the champions to come, killed them, and trapped their spirits in the control terminal so the autopilots were the only things giving orders. And when Link defeats the Blights, the auto-pilot robot is destroyed but the champion's spirits are so ingrained into the beasts system, they no longer need the extra bridge between soul and machine.
I saw that too. And I find it really interesting that maybe the blights did take control over the bodys of the champions. I mean there is a little detail that maybe proves this theorie. If you look at the Ganon from the botw 2 trailer he clearly doesn't have a beard. Calamity Ganon does and we know a person who has a pretty beard and who died as well and was maybe in the throne room at the time. Whos spirit just like the 4 champions is still in hyrule.. Really gets you thinking doesn't it. That the malice took over the King.
@@ShiroKurose Canonically they didnt, the Champions fought the Blights and they already looked like that with the same weaponry, and Calamity Ganon itself is meant to resemble an undead Ganondorf. What is more likely is that the Blights were formed out of parts of the Divine Beasts once they landed in them, and they resemble the Champions because they are, in the end, Champions of their own race, races who have and had very traditional fighting styles, each one linked with an specific Divine Beast. It makes sense if each Divine Beast had weaponry for a champion of their respective race in them, or are weaponry part of the Divine beast itself.
@@torashiki5646 I know that but really Did they? I only saw the champions fight the blights and how they looked like in age of calamity. In botw I never saw them actually and i don't remember ever reading or seeing how they looked like. So even if it is canon that they indeed looked like that the point of my post was the beard thing with calamity ganon and the King.. it is just a theory of mine i wanted to share. :) because it is sus that Ganon in the botw 2 Trailer doesn't have one. And he has hair so he didn't lose it over the years i guess xD
Idea: The Blights are security mechanisms for the Divine Beasts, programmed to activate if the Beasts were boarded. This would explain why no extra security mechanisms activated, such as turrets. After all, why would they recognise one of their own as a threat?
Yeah, but they look very similar to calamity ganon, and they aren't even like corrupted sheikah tech like the guardians, no, they are also part malice like calamity ganon.
@PsyKat777 They are very clearly corrupted Sheikah tech. You can tell this just by looking at them. @Afvaldr I'm not denying that. What I'm saying is that Ganon sent those shards to take out the Champions, and they possessed the security guardians because they were the most powerful things on the Divine Beasts.
While I think this is a cool idea, there is an issue; only the champions can enter the divine beasts. That's why they were such a pain to deal with for their respective races.
Link's Elegy of Emptiness form is supposedly based on Shigeru Miyamoto, which considering the original legend of zelda was based on Miyamoto's childhood adventures, it actually makes sense that the shell Link would produce would look like the person who's spirit his character is based on, Shigeru Miyamoto.
I was thinking the shell is "The essence of the person playing the song minus their soul" - in the three transformations' cases you get pretty much mirror images of them in life because their souls were already taken alongside their bodies. In Link's case, you get an image of what he'd look like living without his soul - hollow eyes, blank stare, a mouth that just sort of hangs open like a zombie.
the redeads are the creepiest to me, and I vaguely remember hearing that they were the remains of the people who lived in the areas they're found in who had been unable to escape. I don't know if it's official or just something the kids made up in that age, but the idea that they were once humans, who still retain that shred of humanity and community as they endlessly suffer as insane, animated corpses is deeply emotional to me.
The Redeads have always intrigued me because the way they're used in OoT, the developers were clearly implying that they were walking corpses, or something like that. They're in places where we we'd expect the dead to be, such as in the castle town after it's ruined, and in tombs in the graveyard. I think it was in the guide that there was a mention that their masks are wooden funeral masks, which relates to real world traditions of doing similar things. I definitely read that somewhere but I can't remember where. But then the entries for them in the Smash series seem to throw that out of the window. In the English descriptions for them it says that they are magic animated in humanoid shape. I thought this might just be a bit of classic Nintendo of America self-censoring so I checked the Japanese versions and they also say something similar. In the 3DS version, the description starts with these lines: ウォーキングデッド、つまりゾンビに似ているが、どうやら、元・人間ということではないらしい。たまたま人間の形に似ている土くれの怪物が、たまたま通りかかったリンクに襲いかかるのだ。 My reading of this is: The walking dead, that is, they resemble zombies but apparently they weren't originally human. They seem to be human-shaped monsters made from the earth and they'll attack Link if he happens to pass by. Well, I think that before Smash they were implied to be the actual remains of Hylians and whoever else died there, based on their locations and "grieving" behaviour. Then when it came to explicitly stating what they are, for whatever reason, Nintendo backed down on it. Just my opinion, but hat's how I see it :)
Sometimes I wonder if the teams that work on other series at Nintendo occasionally look at the Zelda team and are just like, “…Are y’all… ok?” But then I remember how scary Car Kirby is.
Something to note about the Blights. The 4 champions were also meant to be pilots for the Divine Beasts. But despite them having have perished, the Divine Beasts still Operate without them. Maybe each of the Blights were originally a Specialized Guardian or Shieka Automaton that would have acted as the main pilot before and after the 4 champions took over. We see that in Memories of Link Darunia is seemingly Controlling Rudania without any form of Helm or control panel. So to "control" the divine beast must take the Spiritual Power the same kind used for Shieka Tech. So i can be either the Blights that are connecting through Shieka tech or the Champions still controlling the beasts in their spiritual form.
I personally think that Elegy of Emptiness Link is actually the Terminian version of Link. We see a lot of "copies" that have strange relationships with their Hylian counterparts, but we never see a Link counterpart. What if he's somehow in a sort of limbo, dead, or otherwise cursed because of Link's arrival in this land, and the Elegy is copying that tortured soul, and not Link himself?
I always thought that Link's counterpart was the Fierce Deity. The seemingly "alive" features of Link's shell are likely because he isn't dead like the spirits whom the other shells represent.
@@JMScibra Possibly. As for FDL as Terminian Link, it's believable but I'm skeptical. It's an ancient warrior-god of some kind, closer to the concept of the Spirit of the Hero than Link himself.
Hmm this reminds me of how in Lorule we find counterparts to all the people in Hyrule, except for the sages & initially Link SPOILER ALERT: but then we eventually discover that Ravio is Link's counterpart. It'd be nice to return to Lorule in a main console game
@@JMScibra Yea I was thinking that the eyes arent blank for Link's shell because he's actually live. But that doesnt explain other differences in features...I found out the face for the shell is based off Miyamoto tho
I love Zelda mysteries. I've watched so much Zelda Lore online it's hard to find anything new. But I still love hearing about the stuff I have already learned about. The way you narrate always brings me in. Also, I want you to know I would gladly watch Elden Ring content from you! I'd love to see your take on FromSoft lore.
The Elegy of Emptiness was said to have the ability to create "soldiers with no heart", which has less to with the soul and more to do with literally having no heart; Being an empty vessel who feels nothing at all. The reason is creates statues of Mikau, Darmani, and the Butler's Son is because the song itself captures the appearance of the user. Link's forms look like Link to us, but, everyone else in the world sees Mikau and Darmani as they existed. Of course, the song creates statues of them even while dead, which gives them the rather horrific look of emptiness with the white eyes to signify that they are copies of beings no longer alive. You're making a statue of a ghost, effectively. With that logic, we could take that to mean the Elegy statue of Link really is just a generic looking, heartless version of Link who has no emotion at all. He has eyes on the statue because Link is still alive, he's not dead.
I don't think weapon size is too important in botw considering when you kill lynels you can wield their huge weapons but now they are your size. I would assume the even more advanced sheika weapons could work similarly.
@@ogge9296 He's not a traditional Lich, but I think being called the Lich King, he is still technically one. Especially how Ner'zhul was originally, where he was a spirit of sorts bound to a suit of armor and a sword. After he merged with Arthas maybe not so much.
Always taught that perhaps the skeletons at the tail cave were from real people that lost at sea, found their way into the island. Only perishing in the hands of the nightmares, serving as a warning to those who find themselves in the dungeon. My imagination runs too crazy on that game, lol.
I mean it’s possible that the skeletons in Link’s Awakening were people that had learned of their true origin or that their reality was not what they seemed, and had been destroyed by the wind fish’s consciousness somehow.
Nah, the root question is WHAT was the Dream? Koholint had no true physical substance. It was all just magic. But.. where did the information used to create it come from? One idea is that it is memories of the Windfish. IE people places and things the Windfish had seen in it's life. Thus all of them are... sort of real. They're images of real(in-universe) people places and things.... but mixed together out of context. Part of why it seems to make no sense is because we're seeing PIECES of things and not whole things. Many memories of many places are mixed together in a jumble that doesn't quite make a cohesive whole. For the skeletons.... the question then becomes, what is this a memory OF? Where was the original place that the dream copied?
@@marhawkman303 ooh this is a very good comment! The jumbled up nature of regurgitated memories perfectly exemplifies what dreams are actually like! And then you posed the great and eerie question about what that dungeon was a memory of! I guess the Windfish has seen some fucked up things!
Re: the Blights’ / tech, it’s safe to assume that the size and physiognomy of the Shiekah tech and weapons warped to suit each Blight’s body, the same way Calamity Ganon himself has oversized Shiekah tech arming his body.
The Elegy of Emptiness mystery is pretty easy to figure out. It basically is spelled out in the explanation "a soldier with no heart" and in the song's title, the Elegy of Emptiness. These are reflections of the souls of those who played the song, but with a twist: they are completely heartless. These are basically versions of Link, the Deku Butler's son, Darmani, and Mikau who have lost all positive emotions.
I always figured the blights got their tech from something meant to GUARD the Champions so they could Pilot their divine beasts with peace of mind. It can't be easy to pilot something the size of a mountain and I feel like it would take a good amount of concentration. This might leave the champions vulnerable to attacks while piloting their beasts, thus leading ancient sheikah to installing defensive measures intended to protect them.
The Blights might have something to do with the Ancient Champions. They are deliberately vague on the races of the four champions and the tapestry looks different from present. Considering the similarities of the blights to the ancient armor... they might have been intend to be armor for the Champions.
I love the Zeltik RUclips channel. It brings a great script with new topics every video that leaves you wanting more every time you watch. And the community is great.
Taking a deeper look into the Blights makes me think that while Ganon's plan worked and the champions were killed by them... he could've been a little bit more smarter and saved some time at least. Instead of sending them in the order he did, he could've done this: Send *Fireblight Ganon* to fight *Urbosa* who would've had a harder time with its ability as she's mostly a close-combat warrior. Send *Waterblight Ganon* to fight *Daruk* who would've had it badly as Gorons are accustomed to the earth and heat instad of water and cold. Send *Thunderblight Ganon* to fight *Revali* as he could've struck him with lightning and avoid his arrows faster. Send *Windblight Ganon* to fight *Mipha* as its wind attacks could disperse the water attacks and attack her from a distance.
I like to think that the Blight Ganons used to be specialized Guardian Scouts, meant to act as either a training bot or a defense mechanism for the champions and their divine beasts.
We know from the "fifth divine beast" dungeon that a Sheikah monk resided within it, yet we never see any monks in the other 4 Divine Beasts. Maybe the Blights corrupted the Beasts' hidden monks?
The theory about the Champions and the Blights is interesting, I’ve seen like 3 different explanations from different people. I have one other thought to add: do you think the Blights actually NEED to resemble the Champions, in order to try to pilot the beasts? For example, would the Blights not be able to make the Divine Beasts do anything bad if they didn’t resemble the powers of the Champions? Perhaps it’s Ganon’s attempt at “hacking” some sort of biometric recognition the Divine Beasts respond to, that allows them to only be piloted by their Champions or ones similar enough to them. This could be why in Age of Calamity, the descendants (who have fractions of similar powers) are also able to assist with piloting, albeit not as well as their original pilots. The Divine Beasts may recognize only a certain type of figure as able to pilot them; and as such, the Blights had to get close enough, or else they couldn’t “hack” them and sow chaos even if they killed their Champions.
Zelda is the scariest non-horror franchise. Every emotion you’re supposed to feel through the in game events you encounter they make sure it’s captured. Riding Epona makes you mellow, and playing the elegy of emptiness makes you want to jump off of stone tower.
Personally I love the creepy idea that the dead bodies of the strongest hero’s in breath of the wild that each Gannon in each Beast uses a bit of their bodies to become the being that it is. That way Link actually has to fight a part of his friends from long ago. So like the reason Link see them after the fight is that Gannon contained their souls and that’s how they were trapped. I guess that would mean that the champions were somewhat alive a bit inside Gannon and were suffering that whole time. A messed up idea but to me it makes sense in a way.
I have no problem that you took a while to upload because you were checking out Eldon ring. The game looks great and I’m super excited for it. Hope you enjoy it!
Ya'know. It just occurred to me that the Elegy of Emptyness might just be a massive Photogenic joke everyone missed. Like, that incarnation of Link/The Hero has garbage luck in getting their picture taken
Long time viewer, first time commenter. If no one had told you lately, you are amazing! The amount of research that goes into your videos is impressive. And you definitely have the voice of an audio book narrator. I could listen to you for hours. Actually, I have, lol. Keep up the great work.
I remember a video a couple months back theorizing that Ganon is a lich, and my understanding of the vessel storing their life essence is that it's kept in a hidden, secret place where it can't be found and destroyed. Given the ease with which Link finds and destroys the green orb, it's unlikely that Gomess was a lich, or if he was, he wasn't very good at it.
Maybe the Blights' weapons are so big because, in Hyrule, weapons magically resize themselves perfectly to their wielder, Sheikah technology or not. Just look at anything a Moblin wields compared to how big it is when Link wields the same thing. That's just how weapons work in Hyrule, apparently. Like how metal weapons attract lightning. That's not how electricity works in the real world. But it works that way in Hyrule. So, that might explain the apparent discrepancy in the size of the Blights' weapons. It's just a rule of physics unique to Hyrule.
I think the redeads don't disappear immediately is because their curse makes it difficult for them to actually die, or perhaps they can't even die at all, instead lying on the ground in unending pain. The other redeads act in sympathy to them.
Love the liche observation of Gomess. I always thought its head resembled that of Igos du Ikana (or one of his contemporaries). The idea of a member of the Ikana kingdom becoming a corrupted shell of his former self, wielding a scythe bearing the skull of one of his own people, (possibly) doing the bidding of the Garo nation or (possibly) the bidding of the Ikana kingdom, albeit in a twisted manner, is very likely. There’s definitely a lost story in there somewhere.
The only other details that could be useful concerning Gomess is the fact that bats swarm the graveyard and Dampe includes bats as something he really doesn't like. Of course it probably doesn't mean much, just reinforcing Gomess's connection to death and Dampe is scared of a lot of things anyways.
So sad we will never get an explanation! It's so cool to see that even now we find new mysteries and easter eggs in the Zelda games! Hello from France btw, I love your content!
I subscribe to the theory that ReDeads are related to the Sheikah people, either created through funerary practices or magic, or some combination of the two. The Sheikah are clearly a very spiritual tribe, yet wield dark magics rather than the light typically associated with the Goddesses and typically good people. With that being said, I think the ReDeads crouching down at the side of their fallen brethren are doing so to pray for the departed spirit(s) there, perhaps in reference to Shinto beliefs and practices.
For the blight theory, what if shortly after the sheikah we’re banned from making technology, the newly-formed yiga contacted ganon and he had them make the weaponry for his plan.
This strikes me as quite plausible although I doubt he had them make the specific forms of the blights seen in Breath of the Wild. More likely they made a set of weapons (cannons, spears, lances, blades, etc.) for Ganon and his minions and maybe a set of robots that served as sort of the "blank" template for what was later repurposed as the blights. When Ganon made his first strike he did so with great precision, hitting hard and fast in a lightning assault that was extremely effective. This suggests to me that he had superb intel on what his enemies were up to. Who would be providing him this information? Well we can be fairly certain the Yiga were active during that time span and they probably had means, motive, and opportunity. With all that information Ganon tailored each blight to maximize its chances of success before sending them out. Now I'm left wondering if the Yiga helped the Sheikah find the Guardians and Divine Beasts and if so did Ganon order them to do so because he'd hatched his assault scheme. Then again perhaps an unknown Yiga, dead by the time Breath of the Wild begins, came up with the plan.
I had never realized just how close the Blights were to looking like the champions. But stemming off of your theory of them possibly being weapons for the Champions, what if they were made to be controlled through the main control console in the Divine Beast? They wouldn't necessarily have to be the same size as the champions but they could be controlled for use outside of the Divine Beast by the champion being inside the Divine Beast.
Maybe the blights were designed as a way for the champions to train. They were made to be stronger then the champions so that the champions could have a challenge while training. I’m not sure why they would be on the Devine Beasts though.
I have a pretty interesting theory about the Battle Tested Guardian from Age of Calamity. Basically, to summarize it, i think that because the Battle Tested Guardian is "Battle tested" is because this guardian actually holds the soul or the conscious of the Ancient Hero 10,000 years before the events of the Great Calamity. I think that the Calamity 10,000 years ago was still going on, even after Ganon was defeated. And the ancient hero fell at some point, similar to Link in BOTW. The Sheikah knew that by using the Shrine of resurrection wasn't probably the best option they had, so they converted the Hero's soul into a Guardian, and that is where the Battle Tested Guardian comes into play, because it seems to have a conscious, choosing to fight with Link against the calamity. Its quite weird that a guardian, one of the most powerful units has the ability to refuse or accept to join a force... Also that the BT guardian is more powerful than other guardians, being able to fly, rapid fire, and even attack from the air. Because the soul of the Hero allows it to do things other guardians can't by using its powers effectively and uniquely
The Blights are Sheikah constructs made to pilot the Divine Beasts in the event that no champions are found. Ganon corrupted these constructs and turned them on the champions right when they were going to pilot the Divine Beasts.
For the elegy of emptiness, I think that the reason it makes a very uncanny version of link is because it’s maybe a early or the first version of link. I always thought it was weird that throughout tens of thousands of years there has always been a “Link” that looks similar and is pretty much the same, so maybe each of those “Links” have just been possessed or housing the soul/spirit of the original Hylian warrior/champion.. Link, and so maybe that’s why the elegy creates a link that’s not evil but also not the same as the link in majora’s mask
Perhaps the Elogy of Emptyness summons the Link FROM Termina, that has already passed away. Every character seems to have a counterpart, even Darmani, just because we don’t see him in the real world doesn’t mean he doesn’t exist somewhere in the real Hyrule. So in that respect, people theorized ‘Hyrule’ Link being dead as the reason he is here in Terminus as well as the creepy statue, but I think it can be as simple as his counterpart is who is dead! 🤔⚰️⚔️
For me, the biggest mystery in BotW are the gerudo. How can they stand and walk on sand with high heels? My sister already complains enough about how difficult, tiring and painful is to walk with them for hours on a stable floor, and these women happily prance around on sand? Yeah, right. Also, Urbosa. How the heck isn't she electrocuted whenever she snaps her lightning attack, considering all the metal jewelry she wears? Gold is a metal and metals are conductors of electricity, you know? Or even if the attack doesn't come from her but she's the one receiving it (as shown in the video), by logic she should be fried instantly O_O.
The Elegy face looks like the manga style they use to make the faces on the titans in Attack on Titan, where Link looks more like the humans. I wonder if there is a name for these styles.
As a grown man, i want to thank this channel and every other that has helped to shed light on the darkness that is the lore of Zelda. When I was young, i had missed a lot of the real secrets this game series held, yes my cousin let me borrow his official strategy guide which helped me immensely. I was in love with Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, i still hold them closer to my heart than any other game series, even ff7 which i 100%. I stopped playing zelda before Wind Waker was released because i was already in my teens and moved onto more militaristic styled games that i used to focus on understanding the skills those style of games provided me with. I'll never willingly forget beating OoT and MM as a young boy and sadly, i sense a time where maybe I'll be forced to let them go and think of a future still uncertain or possibly unpleasant.
I live for dark Zelda, that's what makes the games 100% better for me is that they can get really dark. I want my children to play these games. Majora mask, wind waker, twilight princess, etc. playing legend of zelda will most likely make they stronger, braver, cleaver, and smarter people.
Could the statue be of the original spirit of the hero that inhabits the following Link incarnations? Had never thought about that before, great theories! Hope you’re well Zeltik, sending best wishes 💗
About Gomess: It resembles Ikana's King appearance, not just his features but his hairstyle and hierarchy, like his war spirit was separated from his soul, maybe controlling the lives he took away in the past and even more, being the influence for the king's actions. The green orb was just the accumulated life force stolen from the living and both channeled and protected by the bats/kisses as a physical embodiment.
Question:Why do people think the re-dead’s are cannibalizing their kin? Their mouths can’t move. Also I like the theory that the blights are just mocking the champions by copying them.Its just like:”HAHA!We have killed u,now we gonna copy u”
Just realized, I had an idea for a potential enemy return concept for BotW2 in my head for the Vire, where it acts basically as a stronger variation of the Keese Swarms where it swaps between the main body and the swarm, splitting into the swarm when struck and swooping at Link spitting fireballs, until you either get far enough away from it or defeat it, and Gomess feels like it would be a double reference due to him functionally acting the same way.
5:16 I do have a theory that works just based off of observation. The skeletons belonged to prisoners that were sentenced to death via combat with moldorm they where chained by their necks and they rather had to somehow defeat the worm or be knocked off and come to a sudden stop via their chains.
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Potential insight on the Elegy of Emptiness / Young Link's distorted replica: apparently the developers realized the implications of the ending of Ocarina of Time (Link as a man being sent back in time into the body of a child) and wanted Young Link to look like a child but have expressions of an adult. I wouldn't be surprised if the replica of Young Link looks so twisted because it represents the discomfort of Adult Link being trapped in the body of a child and the horrors he has been through thus far between the two games. (Also fully aware it could just be a funny expression they liked)
Link: 🎼🎵🎶🎵
The wood-carved statue that appears behind him: 😬
But link was in slumber for that 7year time, so not like he has a properly developed mind.
@@just_a_tepig3611 I think it would be pointless for the sword to have him slumber for 7 years and develop only his body and not his mind.
@@ncapone87 physically maybe, but in terms of experience, hed be the same
@@just_a_tepig3611 I like to think Rauru had him do combat training in the spirt realm while his physical body slept. I don't think it would do much good for a 10 year old to fight Ganondorf. That's the whole reason he had to slumber to begin with.
I think that the re-dead’s are actually grieving, as when they lean down, their heads are still a good distance from the corpses, and they slightly shudder as if crying.
Yeah, but that shuddering could also be interpreted as chewing. It's really hard to tell.
But eating fallen comrades doesn't have to be a morbid act. I'm currently reading the Realm of the Elderlings cycle by Robin Hobb. There dragons do eat their fallen kin in order to preserve the memories of the individual. It's even unbearable for them not to do so, because that would mean that lower creatures and vermin would feast on the body of a dragon. And that mustn't be allowed.
So maybe it's both. Maybe they're eating their fallen comrades _because_ they moan their passing.
@@lonestarr1490 The Wari, a cannibal tribe living in the Amazon jungle and "discovered" in the 1950s, consumed the dead bodies of their neighbors and friends as a necessary and compassionate act, because "it is better to be inside a warm friend than in the cold earth," and because it keeps the dead people within the tribe instead of surrendering them to wild animals and bugs. When European missionaries arrived in the area, they forced the islanders to bury their dead instead of eating them, cannibalism being forbidden by Christianity. The natives were horrified by the concept, but since the missionaries also killed off most of them with disease, they didn't have the power to protest the cultural changes being forced on them.
@@mikeysrose🎶 you've got a friend in me 🎶
@@mikeysrose It's kinda funny that cannibalism is forbidden in Christianity but we give a pass at eating, following Catholic doctrine, the litteral body of Christ. (Yes, the Catholic priest really turns the wine and bread into divine flesh, says the doctrine)
@@bullymaguire9987 it's still technically cannibalism tho
Man, is there ever a bottom to the well of Zelda mysteries? Just when you think you've heard it all, there's just a ton more
I see what you did there
@@1012Games 👀
For every one mystery reviewed, 50 more are thought up.
This is all really really old stuff every RUclipsr under the sun has made a video with these. I’m about done here it’s been months since I’ve seen anything new.
@@mathewmeek8263 thanks for the laugh
Perhaps the creepy statue represents Link’s hidden troubles and regrets that he has buried deep in his soul after what happened in Ocarina of Time.
it looks like toon link without a toon face
The elegy face of link looks like he works in costumer service
I love how much depth there is within each Zelda game. There was no need for Nintendo to include them, but they still did, just to make the games that much more amazing!
Yup, it's a legendary thing...
same w kirby
It helps that this was done in the earliest ages of gaming....where more effort was put into lore and small Easter egg details. If these games came out now, I couldn't say there would be this much detail consistently.
Maybe the way the Link statue looks is because it's a reflection of Miyamoto. He did use his adventures as a kid for inspiration for the original Zelda. That's the only reason I could think of it looking like him.
Yes, Elegy of Emptiness Link is meant to be a caricature of Miyamoto.
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*Reflection
@@Tazerboy_10 haha, yeah. I had a brain fart.
I was thinking it shows links internal feelings...he puts on a brave face, fighting all threats with incredible resolve...but inside he's still scared, the song creates a statue resembling the spirit/internal emotion...link is terrified by each and every enemy, but knows he's the only one who can strike these beasts down
Considering Link is kind of the stand in for Miyamotos younger self when he would explore, that's very deep. Ever since I heard that story I always got an inclining feeling that Link's character had a bit of Miyamoto's soul in him. So in a sense when Link used the Elegy of Emptiness to show a shell of his "soul", it makes perfect sense as to why he resembles the man himself. It's a pretty cool subtle connection that I'm sure the developers were trying to make when they created the game. Details like this are why I will always consider Nintendo the top dog when it comes to making games. Nobody has them beat as far as I'm concerned, their standard of quality is on a whole other level from most
The Elegy of Emptiness creates a soldier for a skeleton king. The dead spirits fit in, but very-alive Link does not. He does his best to fit in, looking with dead eyes and showing a bit of skeleton with his teeth.
Very fun theory!
that actually makes a surprising amount of sense, and while still creepy, its also kind of cute and a very clever, subtle little piece of character building, if true.
He's trying his best
Another thing from BotW, by the Hebra stable, there's an old man who gives Link directions. When you ask him about the North, he tells of the labyrinth and how a friend of his decided to venture through when they were kids. The old man states that he never saw his friend again. In the labyrinth, you can find a lone luminous stone on the ground in one of the dead ends. This supports the theory that dead souls are in, or are part of the luminous stones in Hyrule.
I love the way you describe the mysteries. You present the evidence slowly, and with each fact equally presenting a new theory, which keeps me fixed on the video till the end. The mystery is answered with mystery till the real solution is found, and I love when that’s the case.
Thanks mate! Really appreciate it, thank you for watching
I've seen a vid floating around that the Blights were formed around the champion's dead bodies and actually hearing the "their attacks mirror the champion they killed" I can see why people might think that BUT an idea hit me: What if the Blights targeted/corrupted the auto-pilot?
The Shiekah knew they needed to make the Divine Beasts, they knew they needed to make the Shines for Age of the Wild Link, why wouldn't they know future Hyrule would need help figuring out their tech? So they made auto-pilots; Robots much like the ones in Skyward Sword that may have acted as like a bridge for the champions to their respective beasts. If we take the theory that the Divine Beasts require life force to control, having something much like yourself to 'bond' to and ease into your role with might help. The pilot pushes their will onto the Auto-Pilots and the auto-pilots actually give the Beast its commands.
So when Ganon sent Malice to each Beast the Auto-Pilots got corrupted but couldn't take full control without the true pilots life force. So they waited for the champions to come, killed them, and trapped their spirits in the control terminal so the autopilots were the only things giving orders. And when Link defeats the Blights, the auto-pilot robot is destroyed but the champion's spirits are so ingrained into the beasts system, they no longer need the extra bridge between soul and machine.
What a strong thought
I saw that too. And I find it really interesting that maybe the blights did take control over the bodys of the champions. I mean there is a little detail that maybe proves this theorie. If you look at the Ganon from the botw 2 trailer he clearly doesn't have a beard. Calamity Ganon does and we know a person who has a pretty beard and who died as well and was maybe in the throne room at the time. Whos spirit just like the 4 champions is still in hyrule.. Really gets you thinking doesn't it. That the malice took over the King.
@@ShiroKurose Canonically they didnt, the Champions fought the Blights and they already looked like that with the same weaponry, and Calamity Ganon itself is meant to resemble an undead Ganondorf.
What is more likely is that the Blights were formed out of parts of the Divine Beasts once they landed in them, and they resemble the Champions because they are, in the end, Champions of their own race, races who have and had very traditional fighting styles, each one linked with an specific Divine Beast. It makes sense if each Divine Beast had weaponry for a champion of their respective race in them, or are weaponry part of the Divine beast itself.
@@torashiki5646 I know that but really Did they? I only saw the champions fight the blights and how they looked like in age of calamity. In botw I never saw them actually and i don't remember ever reading or seeing how they looked like. So even if it is canon that they indeed looked like that the point of my post was the beard thing with calamity ganon and the King.. it is just a theory of mine i wanted to share. :) because it is sus that Ganon in the botw 2 Trailer doesn't have one. And he has hair so he didn't lose it over the years i guess xD
Good idea
Idea: The Blights are security mechanisms for the Divine Beasts, programmed to activate if the Beasts were boarded. This would explain why no extra security mechanisms activated, such as turrets. After all, why would they recognise one of their own as a threat?
I had the same idea!
Yeah, but they look very similar to calamity ganon, and they aren't even like corrupted sheikah tech like the guardians, no, they are also part malice like calamity ganon.
The Blights are shards of Calamity Ganon which captured the Divine Beasts 100 years prior, this is told by the King at the beginning of the game.
@PsyKat777
They are very clearly corrupted Sheikah tech. You can tell this just by looking at them.
@Afvaldr
I'm not denying that. What I'm saying is that Ganon sent those shards to take out the Champions, and they possessed the security guardians because they were the most powerful things on the Divine Beasts.
While I think this is a cool idea, there is an issue; only the champions can enter the divine beasts. That's why they were such a pain to deal with for their respective races.
Link's Elegy of Emptiness form is supposedly based on Shigeru Miyamoto, which considering the original legend of zelda was based on Miyamoto's childhood adventures, it actually makes sense that the shell Link would produce would look like the person who's spirit his character is based on, Shigeru Miyamoto.
So Miyamoto is resembled by a creepy boy with blond hair? Maybe that's payback for the short development time.
@@artey6671 lmao
@GamerSapph's Speedpaint + Animations Well duh Miyamoto also doesn't typically where green tunics and a hats
I was thinking the shell is "The essence of the person playing the song minus their soul" - in the three transformations' cases you get pretty much mirror images of them in life because their souls were already taken alongside their bodies.
In Link's case, you get an image of what he'd look like living without his soul - hollow eyes, blank stare, a mouth that just sort of hangs open like a zombie.
Now that I think about it, the statue in n64 could be Miyamoto smiling, he shows his teeth a lot, but that's just a theory of course
the redeads are the creepiest to me, and I vaguely remember hearing that they were the remains of the people who lived in the areas they're found in who had been unable to escape. I don't know if it's official or just something the kids made up in that age, but the idea that they were once humans, who still retain that shred of humanity and community as they endlessly suffer as insane, animated corpses is deeply emotional to me.
The only official index we have of them is in melee, where they are not actual corpses but animated clay dolls.
The Redeads have always intrigued me because the way they're used in OoT, the developers were clearly implying that they were walking corpses, or something like that. They're in places where we we'd expect the dead to be, such as in the castle town after it's ruined, and in tombs in the graveyard. I think it was in the guide that there was a mention that their masks are wooden funeral masks, which relates to real world traditions of doing similar things. I definitely read that somewhere but I can't remember where.
But then the entries for them in the Smash series seem to throw that out of the window. In the English descriptions for them it says that they are magic animated in humanoid shape. I thought this might just be a bit of classic Nintendo of America self-censoring so I checked the Japanese versions and they also say something similar. In the 3DS version, the description starts with these lines:
ウォーキングデッド、つまりゾンビに似ているが、どうやら、元・人間ということではないらしい。たまたま人間の形に似ている土くれの怪物が、たまたま通りかかったリンクに襲いかかるのだ。
My reading of this is: The walking dead, that is, they resemble zombies but apparently they weren't originally human. They seem to be human-shaped monsters made from the earth and they'll attack Link if he happens to pass by.
Well, I think that before Smash they were implied to be the actual remains of Hylians and whoever else died there, based on their locations and "grieving" behaviour. Then when it came to explicitly stating what they are, for whatever reason, Nintendo backed down on it. Just my opinion, but hat's how I see it :)
Redeads always creeped me out as I grew older however I realized they are just sad and confused souls unable to move on because of Gannon.
Sometimes I wonder if the teams that work on other series at Nintendo occasionally look at the Zelda team and are just like, “…Are y’all… ok?” But then I remember how scary Car Kirby is.
I can almost guarantee that happened during Majora's Mask dev.
Something to note about the Blights.
The 4 champions were also meant to be pilots for the Divine Beasts. But despite them having have perished, the Divine Beasts still Operate without them.
Maybe each of the Blights were originally a Specialized Guardian or Shieka Automaton that would have acted as the main pilot before and after the 4 champions took over.
We see that in Memories of Link Darunia is seemingly Controlling Rudania without any form of Helm or control panel. So to "control" the divine beast must take the Spiritual Power the same kind used for Shieka Tech. So i can be either the Blights that are connecting through Shieka tech or the Champions still controlling the beasts in their spiritual form.
I personally think that Elegy of Emptiness Link is actually the Terminian version of Link. We see a lot of "copies" that have strange relationships with their Hylian counterparts, but we never see a Link counterpart. What if he's somehow in a sort of limbo, dead, or otherwise cursed because of Link's arrival in this land, and the Elegy is copying that tortured soul, and not Link himself?
I always thought that Link's counterpart was the Fierce Deity. The seemingly "alive" features of Link's shell are likely because he isn't dead like the spirits whom the other shells represent.
@@JMScibra Possibly. As for FDL as Terminian Link, it's believable but I'm skeptical. It's an ancient warrior-god of some kind, closer to the concept of the Spirit of the Hero than Link himself.
Hmm this reminds me of how in Lorule we find counterparts to all the people in Hyrule, except for the sages & initially Link
SPOILER ALERT: but then we eventually discover that Ravio is Link's counterpart. It'd be nice to return to Lorule in a main console game
@@JMScibra Yea I was thinking that the eyes arent blank for Link's shell because he's actually live. But that doesnt explain other differences in features...I found out the face for the shell is based off Miyamoto tho
@@krishnamckay3247 I know about the face being based off of Miyamoto, but that's the Doylist perspective. The big question here is the Watsonian.
I'm here for creepy shit in Zelda videos any week!
ayyyyyye what’s up CZs
2 replies? Damn
I love Zelda mysteries. I've watched so much Zelda Lore online it's hard to find anything new. But I still love hearing about the stuff I have already learned about. The way you narrate always brings me in.
Also,
I want you to know I would gladly watch Elden Ring content from you! I'd love to see your take on FromSoft lore.
The Elegy of Emptiness was said to have the ability to create "soldiers with no heart", which has less to with the soul and more to do with literally having no heart; Being an empty vessel who feels nothing at all.
The reason is creates statues of Mikau, Darmani, and the Butler's Son is because the song itself captures the appearance of the user. Link's forms look like Link to us, but, everyone else in the world sees Mikau and Darmani as they existed.
Of course, the song creates statues of them even while dead, which gives them the rather horrific look of emptiness with the white eyes to signify that they are copies of beings no longer alive. You're making a statue of a ghost, effectively.
With that logic, we could take that to mean the Elegy statue of Link really is just a generic looking, heartless version of Link who has no emotion at all. He has eyes on the statue because Link is still alive, he's not dead.
Zeltik just always make my day better thanks so much!
I don't think weapon size is too important in botw considering when you kill lynels you can wield their huge weapons but now they are your size. I would assume the even more advanced sheika weapons could work similarly.
Love the shot of The Lich King from the Wrath of the Lich King cinematic. That cinematic gives me chills every time the music starts up. It's so good.
Chills
Was kind of irrelevant though as the LK is not a lich. Could've chosen an image of Kel'thuzad or something instead.
@@ogge9296 He's not a traditional Lich, but I think being called the Lich King, he is still technically one. Especially how Ner'zhul was originally, where he was a spirit of sorts bound to a suit of armor and a sword. After he merged with Arthas maybe not so much.
Havent watched the full video yet but i love these creepy/mystery zelda videos so much
Same here.
Main reaaon i started following this
I'm not a lore guy, but legend of zelda is a expetion
@@weshuiz1325 indeed Zelda lore is very interesting I can't get enough of it for some reason.
@@sb6196 yeah same here, dont understand it either, i never care for lore
But here i am waiting for botw2
Always taught that perhaps the skeletons at the tail cave were from real people that lost at sea, found their way into the island. Only perishing in the hands of the nightmares, serving as a warning to those who find themselves in the dungeon. My imagination runs too crazy on that game, lol.
My favorite theory is that everything in Koholint is an image of something the Windfish saw somewhere else. The question is when and where.
Thanks for the amazing Zelda theories as always! Keep up the AMAZING WORK Zeltik!!!!
I mean it’s possible that the skeletons in Link’s Awakening were people that had learned of their true origin or that their reality was not what they seemed, and had been destroyed by the wind fish’s consciousness somehow.
or suicide
Nah, the root question is WHAT was the Dream? Koholint had no true physical substance. It was all just magic. But.. where did the information used to create it come from? One idea is that it is memories of the Windfish. IE people places and things the Windfish had seen in it's life. Thus all of them are... sort of real. They're images of real(in-universe) people places and things.... but mixed together out of context. Part of why it seems to make no sense is because we're seeing PIECES of things and not whole things. Many memories of many places are mixed together in a jumble that doesn't quite make a cohesive whole.
For the skeletons.... the question then becomes, what is this a memory OF? Where was the original place that the dream copied?
@@marhawkman303 ooh this is a very good comment! The jumbled up nature of regurgitated memories perfectly exemplifies what dreams are actually like! And then you posed the great and eerie question about what that dungeon was a memory of! I guess the Windfish has seen some fucked up things!
Re: the Blights’ / tech, it’s safe to assume that the size and physiognomy of the Shiekah tech and weapons warped to suit each Blight’s body, the same way Calamity Ganon himself has oversized Shiekah tech arming his body.
The Elegy of Emptiness mystery is pretty easy to figure out. It basically is spelled out in the explanation "a soldier with no heart" and in the song's title, the Elegy of Emptiness. These are reflections of the souls of those who played the song, but with a twist: they are completely heartless.
These are basically versions of Link, the Deku Butler's son, Darmani, and Mikau who have lost all positive emotions.
? You didn't answer the mystery part. Why are the spirits summoned when wearing a mask so different from Link's statue. That was the mystery lmao.
@@reitairue2073 because theyre dead
And link is still alive
@@justcole1277 im referring to his expression
I always figured the blights got their tech from something meant to GUARD the Champions so they could Pilot their divine beasts with peace of mind. It can't be easy to pilot something the size of a mountain and I feel like it would take a good amount of concentration. This might leave the champions vulnerable to attacks while piloting their beasts, thus leading ancient sheikah to installing defensive measures intended to protect them.
The Blights might have something to do with the Ancient Champions. They are deliberately vague on the races of the four champions and the tapestry looks different from present.
Considering the similarities of the blights to the ancient armor... they might have been intend to be armor for the Champions.
The scariest part was when the yellow rupee was about to despawn
I love the Zeltik RUclips channel. It brings a great script with new topics every video that leaves you wanting more every time you watch. And the community is great.
Taking a deeper look into the Blights makes me think that while Ganon's plan worked and the champions were killed by them... he could've been a little bit more smarter and saved some time at least. Instead of sending them in the order he did, he could've done this:
Send *Fireblight Ganon* to fight *Urbosa* who would've had a harder time with its ability as she's mostly a close-combat warrior.
Send *Waterblight Ganon* to fight *Daruk* who would've had it badly as Gorons are accustomed to the earth and heat instad of water and cold.
Send *Thunderblight Ganon* to fight *Revali* as he could've struck him with lightning and avoid his arrows faster.
Send *Windblight Ganon* to fight *Mipha* as its wind attacks could disperse the water attacks and attack her from a distance.
Could suggest he didn't have a choice in the matter and that the blights were formed as such in-situ from what was available.
You realize That thunder blight Gannon Stronger then Calamity Ganon
Bro the jumpscare at 2:01 literally sent my soul to the shadow realm
I like to think that the Blight Ganons used to be specialized Guardian Scouts, meant to act as either a training bot or a defense mechanism for the champions and their divine beasts.
We know from the "fifth divine beast" dungeon that a Sheikah monk resided within it, yet we never see any monks in the other 4 Divine Beasts. Maybe the Blights corrupted the Beasts' hidden monks?
Sheikah monks wore battle mechs confirmed.
The theory about the Champions and the Blights is interesting, I’ve seen like 3 different explanations from different people. I have one other thought to add: do you think the Blights actually NEED to resemble the Champions, in order to try to pilot the beasts?
For example, would the Blights not be able to make the Divine Beasts do anything bad if they didn’t resemble the powers of the Champions? Perhaps it’s Ganon’s attempt at “hacking” some sort of biometric recognition the Divine Beasts respond to, that allows them to only be piloted by their Champions or ones similar enough to them. This could be why in Age of Calamity, the descendants (who have fractions of similar powers) are also able to assist with piloting, albeit not as well as their original pilots. The Divine Beasts may recognize only a certain type of figure as able to pilot them; and as such, the Blights had to get close enough, or else they couldn’t “hack” them and sow chaos even if they killed their Champions.
This was fantastic! I really hope you make this into a series! There is just SO much fitting into this cathegory!
Zelda is the scariest non-horror franchise. Every emotion you’re supposed to feel through the in game events you encounter they make sure it’s captured. Riding Epona makes you mellow, and playing the elegy of emptiness makes you want to jump off of stone tower.
Personally I love the creepy idea that the dead bodies of the strongest hero’s in breath of the wild that each Gannon in each Beast uses a bit of their bodies to become the being that it is. That way Link actually has to fight a part of his friends from long ago. So like the reason Link see them after the fight is that Gannon contained their souls and that’s how they were trapped. I guess that would mean that the champions were somewhat alive a bit inside Gannon and were suffering that whole time. A messed up idea but to me it makes sense in a way.
I have no problem that you took a while to upload because you were checking out Eldon ring. The game looks great and I’m super excited for it. Hope you enjoy it!
Ya'know.
It just occurred to me that the Elegy of Emptyness might just be a massive Photogenic joke everyone missed.
Like, that incarnation of Link/The Hero has garbage luck in getting their picture taken
“They live out their lives oblivious to the truth about their reality”….. That sounds quite accurate for everyone on Gaia.
Long time viewer, first time commenter. If no one had told you lately, you are amazing! The amount of research that goes into your videos is impressive. And you definitely have the voice of an audio book narrator. I could listen to you for hours. Actually, I have, lol. Keep up the great work.
I remember a video a couple months back theorizing that Ganon is a lich, and my understanding of the vessel storing their life essence is that it's kept in a hidden, secret place where it can't be found and destroyed. Given the ease with which Link finds and destroys the green orb, it's unlikely that Gomess was a lich, or if he was, he wasn't very good at it.
Thanks mate I was literally in the mood for creepy stuff today.
The Blight Ganons are the ultimate example of “If you can’t beat ‘em, join em.”
Maybe the Blights' weapons are so big because, in Hyrule, weapons magically resize themselves perfectly to their wielder, Sheikah technology or not. Just look at anything a Moblin wields compared to how big it is when Link wields the same thing. That's just how weapons work in Hyrule, apparently. Like how metal weapons attract lightning. That's not how electricity works in the real world. But it works that way in Hyrule. So, that might explain the apparent discrepancy in the size of the Blights' weapons. It's just a rule of physics unique to Hyrule.
I think the redeads don't disappear immediately is because their curse makes it difficult for them to actually die, or perhaps they can't even die at all, instead lying on the ground in unending pain. The other redeads act in sympathy to them.
The replica link always reminded me of attack on titan. The dead pan look and smile are a mirror of the titans.
It's always a good day when Zeltik starts talking.
Love the liche observation of Gomess. I always thought its head resembled that of Igos du Ikana (or one of his contemporaries). The idea of a member of the Ikana kingdom becoming a corrupted shell of his former self, wielding a scythe bearing the skull of one of his own people, (possibly) doing the bidding of the Garo nation or (possibly) the bidding of the Ikana kingdom, albeit in a twisted manner, is very likely. There’s definitely a lost story in there somewhere.
The only other details that could be useful concerning Gomess is the fact that bats swarm the graveyard and Dampe includes bats as something he really doesn't like. Of course it probably doesn't mean much, just reinforcing Gomess's connection to death and Dampe is scared of a lot of things anyways.
I absolutely love how much lore there is to explore in the Zelda universe. Great vid as always!
For real, certainly the most confusing Nintendo franchise of all time, but one of the bests
So sad we will never get an explanation! It's so cool to see that even now we find new mysteries and easter eggs in the Zelda games! Hello from France btw, I love your content!
You know I can't believe that you talked about the elegy of emptiness statue and never once brought up Ben Drowned.
I subscribe to the theory that ReDeads are related to the Sheikah people, either created through funerary practices or magic, or some combination of the two. The Sheikah are clearly a very spiritual tribe, yet wield dark magics rather than the light typically associated with the Goddesses and typically good people. With that being said, I think the ReDeads crouching down at the side of their fallen brethren are doing so to pray for the departed spirit(s) there, perhaps in reference to Shinto beliefs and practices.
For the blight theory, what if shortly after the sheikah we’re banned from making technology, the newly-formed yiga contacted ganon and he had them make the weaponry for his plan.
This strikes me as quite plausible although I doubt he had them make the specific forms of the blights seen in Breath of the Wild. More likely they made a set of weapons (cannons, spears, lances, blades, etc.) for Ganon and his minions and maybe a set of robots that served as sort of the "blank" template for what was later repurposed as the blights. When Ganon made his first strike he did so with great precision, hitting hard and fast in a lightning assault that was extremely effective. This suggests to me that he had superb intel on what his enemies were up to. Who would be providing him this information? Well we can be fairly certain the Yiga were active during that time span and they probably had means, motive, and opportunity. With all that information Ganon tailored each blight to maximize its chances of success before sending them out.
Now I'm left wondering if the Yiga helped the Sheikah find the Guardians and Divine Beasts and if so did Ganon order them to do so because he'd hatched his assault scheme. Then again perhaps an unknown Yiga, dead by the time Breath of the Wild begins, came up with the plan.
I had never realized just how close the Blights were to looking like the champions. But stemming off of your theory of them possibly being weapons for the Champions, what if they were made to be controlled through the main control console in the Divine Beast? They wouldn't necessarily have to be the same size as the champions but they could be controlled for use outside of the Divine Beast by the champion being inside the Divine Beast.
Maybe the blights were designed as a way for the champions to train. They were made to be stronger then the champions so that the champions could have a challenge while training. I’m not sure why they would be on the Devine Beasts though.
Zeltik, you forgot something about Thunderblight Ganon: He has a MAD hairdo!!😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
it was a bad idea to watch this at night in the dark, I'm easily spooked
Yay!! I thought we had covered them all by now but I LOVE this kind of stuff!
I think the Link dolls (extra lives) you get in Zelda II may be the ''statues'' created by the Elegy of Emptiness
I don’t ring the bell for many channels. But Zeltik, with this video, you have earned my bell ringing.
I have a pretty interesting theory about the Battle Tested Guardian from Age of Calamity. Basically, to summarize it, i think that because the Battle Tested Guardian is "Battle tested" is because this guardian actually holds the soul or the conscious of the Ancient Hero 10,000 years before the events of the Great Calamity.
I think that the Calamity 10,000 years ago was still going on, even after Ganon was defeated. And the ancient hero fell at some point, similar to Link in BOTW. The Sheikah knew that by using the Shrine of resurrection wasn't probably the best option they had, so they converted the Hero's soul into a Guardian, and that is where the Battle Tested Guardian comes into play, because it seems to have a conscious, choosing to fight with Link against the calamity. Its quite weird that a guardian, one of the most powerful units has the ability to refuse or accept to join a force... Also that the BT guardian is more powerful than other guardians, being able to fly, rapid fire, and even attack from the air. Because the soul of the Hero allows it to do things other guardians can't by using its powers effectively and uniquely
The Blights are Sheikah constructs made to pilot the Divine Beasts in the event that no champions are found. Ganon corrupted these constructs and turned them on the champions right when they were going to pilot the Divine Beasts.
For the elegy of emptiness, I think that the reason it makes a very uncanny version of link is because it’s maybe a early or the first version of link. I always thought it was weird that throughout tens of thousands of years there has always been a “Link” that looks similar and is pretty much the same, so maybe each of those “Links” have just been possessed or housing the soul/spirit of the original Hylian warrior/champion.. Link, and so maybe that’s why the elegy creates a link that’s not evil but also not the same as the link in majora’s mask
I can finally say "I've never clicked so fast in my life."
Gotta love that this notification comes up right as I bought a switch with BotW as my first game
That's nice. Have fun playing botw! :D
@@diediedice thankyou! Always loved Zelda series but I never bought a switch to play it! Super stoked about it
Perhaps the Elogy of Emptyness summons the Link FROM Termina, that has already passed away. Every character seems to have a counterpart, even Darmani, just because we don’t see him in the real world doesn’t mean he doesn’t exist somewhere in the real Hyrule.
So in that respect, people theorized ‘Hyrule’ Link being dead as the reason he is here in Terminus as well as the creepy statue, but I think it can be as simple as his counterpart is who is dead! 🤔⚰️⚔️
For me, the biggest mystery in BotW are the gerudo. How can they stand and walk on sand with high heels? My sister already complains enough about how difficult, tiring and painful is to walk with them for hours on a stable floor, and these women happily prance around on sand? Yeah, right.
Also, Urbosa. How the heck isn't she electrocuted whenever she snaps her lightning attack, considering all the metal jewelry she wears? Gold is a metal and metals are conductors of electricity, you know? Or even if the attack doesn't come from her but she's the one receiving it (as shown in the video), by logic she should be fried instantly O_O.
Ooh! This is interesting. I love your videos!
When the video starts with Majora's Mask lore, it'll be always dark and awesome, thanks Zeltik 👍
Such a good video Zeltik. Very nice work
It's ok Zeltik, Elden Ring's got us all distracted. You're good.
Thank you Zeltik, for that thumbnail. I was trying to cut back on sleep.
nice to see you upload again
The Elegy face looks like the manga style they use to make the faces on the titans in Attack on Titan, where Link looks more like the humans. I wonder if there is a name for these styles.
Without watching the video I'm going to assume this is all about what Tingle does with his hands when no one is watching.
I love these new Weekend videos!!!
As a grown man, i want to thank this channel and every other that has helped to shed light on the darkness that is the lore of Zelda. When I was young, i had missed a lot of the real secrets this game series held, yes my cousin let me borrow his official strategy guide which helped me immensely. I was in love with Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, i still hold them closer to my heart than any other game series, even ff7 which i 100%. I stopped playing zelda before Wind Waker was released because i was already in my teens and moved onto more militaristic styled games that i used to focus on understanding the skills those style of games provided me with. I'll never willingly forget beating OoT and MM as a young boy and sadly, i sense a time where maybe I'll be forced to let them go and think of a future still uncertain or possibly unpleasant.
*spits out coffee* That image wasn't made up for the Ben Drowned creepypasta?! Holy moly.
I live for dark Zelda, that's what makes the games 100% better for me is that they can get really dark. I want my children to play these games. Majora mask, wind waker, twilight princess, etc. playing legend of zelda will most likely make they stronger, braver, cleaver, and smarter people.
Well, you need bad guys, that give you reasons to want to kill them. :D
Zeltiks' videos consistently being 13 minutes and 37 seconds makes me ponder what have I been doing wrong my whole life, unlike him.
My new favorite youtuber
Could the statue be of the original spirit of the hero that inhabits the following Link incarnations? Had never thought about that before, great theories!
Hope you’re well Zeltik, sending best wishes 💗
I wonder if Thunderblight is the hardest to fight, due to also Ganon's Gerudo heritage, as if he bonded to that one the most in strength?
Or perhaps because Urbosa is the most skilled warrior of the 4
It's because we usually end up fighting it the last
About Gomess: It resembles Ikana's King appearance, not just his features but his hairstyle and hierarchy, like his war spirit was separated from his soul, maybe controlling the lives he took away in the past and even more, being the influence for the king's actions. The green orb was just the accumulated life force stolen from the living and both channeled and protected by the bats/kisses as a physical embodiment.
Question:Why do people think the re-dead’s are cannibalizing their kin?
Their mouths can’t move.
Also I like the theory that the blights are just mocking the champions by copying them.Its just like:”HAHA!We have killed u,now we gonna copy u”
12:30 "This is a common characteristic of a lich..."
Shows a picture of the Lich _King,_ who is definitely _not_ a lich.
Dude you're living Zelda encyclopedia! Thank you so much
Love the Elden Ring plug at the end. I’ve been losing so much sleep over that game
Is it weird that I've played barely any Zelda games but i still love these videos? Lmao
Love your videos so much!🤞🏻✨ thank you for making them!
Just realized, I had an idea for a potential enemy return concept for BotW2 in my head for the Vire, where it acts basically as a stronger variation of the Keese Swarms where it swaps between the main body and the swarm, splitting into the swarm when struck and swooping at Link spitting fireballs, until you either get far enough away from it or defeat it, and Gomess feels like it would be a double reference due to him functionally acting the same way.
5:36 or they got knocked off, couldnt find a way out and ended themselves? Idk
5:16 I do have a theory that works just based off of observation. The skeletons belonged to prisoners that were sentenced to death via combat with moldorm they where chained by their necks and they rather had to somehow defeat the worm or be knocked off and come to a sudden stop via their chains.
Wooooooooo! Keep on Keepin’ On!